It needs to be lower

[Diver944]

ORIGINAL: appletonn

Measured from the ground through the centre of each wheel to the lip of each wheel arch:

Front 62.5cm
Rear  63cm

Oooh - I'm not as high as I thought (totally standard M030 Turbo)

Front 66cm
Rear 65cm

 

[James_G]

Surprisingly neither am I

Totally standard car, TBs untouched, original springs :

Front 65cm
Rear 64.5cm

 

[appletonn]

Just to add that mine is after removing both leccy seats, so need to double check it after putting those 50kgs back in!

 

[edh]

Front 61
Rear 60

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there is some variation side to side - I think the best place for an accurate measurement is at the base of the sills F&R (above the black trim piece)

 

[homesea]

I'm not going to stop until mine the lowest on here[]

61 and 60 to beat.

Going to run it on 14" alloys just so I can get it lower, might have to remove the calipers so the wheels go on.

I would meassure the height of mine but my neighbours will think I am odder than they think already.

 

[tref]

Hmmm... I thought my rear suspension was shot.... 65.5cm at front, 60.5cm one side, 61cm the other on the back. It could have been worse... I could have measured it before I put some air in the tyres!

As far as I am aware, all stock suspension on a 193k miles S2...

Tref.

 

[sawood12]

You're probably better off not using any part of the bodywork as a reference point and measuring from the castor mounts to the ground at the front and the rear trailing arm hinge at the rear.

 

[tref]

Agree that wheel arch top to the ground is probably not ideal as it doesn't account for variations in wheel rolling radius... depends whether you are interested in ground clearance, or how buried in the wheel arches the wheels are...

 

[bennyboy]

Front - 63
Rear - 63.5

M030 on original springs and torsion bar settings. Kinda hoping it was higher than that as she's going in for KW in the next few weeks and wanted to SEE the difference as well as feel it! Would like 62 front and 61 rear...on 18's[:-]!